NAME
IPC::Run::Fused - Capture Stdout/Stderr simultaneously as if it were one
stream, painlessly.
VERSION
version 0.04000100
SYNOPSIS
use IPC::Run::Fused qw( run_fused );
run_fused( my $fh, $stderror_filled_program, '--file', $tricky_filename, @moreargs ) || die "Argh $@";
open my $fh, '>', 'somefile.txt' || die "NOO $@";
# Simple implementation of 'tee' like behaviour,
# sending to stdout and to a file.
while ( my $line = ) {
print $fh $line;
print $line;
}
DESCRIPTION
Have you ever tried to do essentially the same as you would in bash do
to this:
parentapp &1 )
And found massive road works getting in the way.
Sure, you can aways do this style syntax:
open my $fh, 'someapp --args foo 2>&1 |';
But thats not very nice, because
1. you're relying on a subshell to do that for you
2. you have to manually escape everything
3. you can't use list context.
And none of this is very Modern or Nice
SIMPLEST THING THAT JUST WORKS
This code is barely tested, its here, because I spent hours griping
about how the existing ways suck.
FEATURES
1. No String Interpolation.
Arguments after the first work as if you'd passed them directly to
'system'. You can be as dangerous or as safe as you want with them.
We recommend passing a list, but a string ( as a scalar reference )
should work
But if you're using a string, this modules probably not affording
you much.
2. No dicking around with managing multiple file handles yourself.
I looked at IPC::Run IPC::Run3 and IPC::Open3, and they all seemed
very unfriendly, and none did what I wnted.
3. Non-global filehandles supported by design.
All the competition seem to still have this thing for global file
handles and you having to use them. Yuck!.
We have a few global FH's inside our code, but they're only STDERR
and STDOUT, at present I don't think I can circumvent that. If I
ever can, I'll endeavour to do so =)
EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
No functions are exported by default, be explicit with what you want.
At this time there is only one, and there are no plans for more.
run_fused
run_fused( $fh, $executable, @params ) || die "$@";
run_fused( $fh, \$command_string ) || die "$@";
run_fused( $fh, sub { .. } ) || die "$@";
# Recommended
run_fused( my $fh, $execuable, @params ) || die "$@";
# Somewhat supported
run_fused( my $fh, \$command_string ) || die "$@";
$fh will be clobbered like 'open' does, and $cmd, @args will be passed,
as-is, through to exec() or system().
$fh will point to an IO::Handle attached to the end of a pipe running
back to the called application.
the command will be run in a fork, and stderr and stdout "fused" into a
singluar pipe.
NOTE: at present, STDIN's FD is left unchanged, and child processes will
inherit parent STDIN's, and will thus block ( somewhere ) waiting for
response.
AUTHOR
Kent Fredric
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Kent Fredric.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.